Neckband-shaper.



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JOSEPH MCKAY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, AElSIG-NOB TO HALL, I-IARTWELL & COMPANY, OF

TROY, NEW YORK, A FIRM CONSISTING OF WILLIAM L. P. SCI-IAD, AND BURTON K. WOOIDWARD.

HALL, JOSEPH MCKAY, JOHN NECKBAND-SHAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed November 18, 1912. Serial No. 731,945

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnrH MoKA Y a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckband-Shapers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan View of my improved neckband-shaper in extended position. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same from front to rear taken on the broken line 22 in Fig. 1.

The principal obect of the invention is to provide a self-expanding neckband-shaper adapted to support the neckband of a shirt during the operation of ironing the neckband and the neighboring portions of the shirt.

Another object is to support the neckband during the ironing operation at substantially the angle to the bosom-portion of the shirt which the neckband occupies in use.

Other objects will appear in connection with the following description.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1 is a front blocksegment, having a curved front edge, 2, of the shape desired for the front portion of the laundried neckband, and 3 is a rear block-segment, having curved edgeportions, 4, of the shape desired for the rear side portions of the neckband, it being unnecessary to support the neckband at the middle of its back portion whereat the neckband is ironed fiat. The rear block is provided with apertures, 5, adapted to loosely receive the respective screws, 6, the inner ends of said screws being secured in the front block-segment, 1, whereby said screws form guides for movements of expansion and contraction of the rear block, 3. The heads of the respective screws, 6, engage shoulders on the rear block, 3, to limit the movement of expansion of the block. Coilsprings, 8, embrace the respective screws, 6,

and are confined under compressionbetween the blocks, 1, and 8, bearing at their opposite ends against the respective front block and rear block, and serving to yieldingly expand the shaper to the limit permitted by the heads of the screws, 6. The rear block is formed with an opening, 9, and the front block with an opening, 10, said openings being adapted to receive the fingers and thumb of a single hand of the operator, whereby said blocks. can be forced together against the expansive force of the springs, 8, to sufficiently contract the device to be inserted within a neckband of-a size for which it is adapted. When the shaper has been thus inserted within the neckband and has been released, the front and rear blocks will be forced apart to fill the neckband and stretch the same to the limit permitted by the heads of the screws, 6.

By providing the device with proper means, as the openings, 9 and 10, to facilitate the forcible contraction of the device, I am able to employ springs, 8, having sufficient force to properly stretch and shape the neckband.

In order to impart to the neckband of the shirt substantially the position which it occupies in use, I bevel or chamfer the front edge of the shaper, as at 11, to form thereon an upwardly and inwardly beveled or inclined surface at an oblique angle to the plane of the shaper; and to overcome the tendency of the neckband to creep up along such inclined surface, I project beyond the edge of the top of the front block-segment a plate, 12, overhanging the beveled surface, 11, at the front of the shaper, as shown in Fig. 2. The neckband being thus prevented from creeping up on the inclined surface of the shaper, is forced to conform to the shape thereof, and when ironed in this form, the front of the neckband retains the oblique position which it normally occupies in use. The overhanging member, 12, may be formed in any known manner.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A neckband-shaper comprising a front block-segment having its front edge upwardly and rearwardly inclined and having a plate attached to its top overhanging said inclined edge, a rear block-segment movable relatively to the front block-segment, and

springs confined under compression between same hand for insertion within a neekband said block-segments. Without interference of said thumb and fin- 2. A n'eckband-shaper comprising relager with the neckband.

tively movable substantially solid front and In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set 5 rear blocks and springs confined under commy hand this 14th day of November, 1912. 15

pression between said blocks each block provided With an opening Wholly within the JOSEPH f general contour of the form for which the Witnesses: shaper is adapted, whereby the blocks can A. B. GETMAN, 10 be grasped by the thumb and a finger of the JOHN J. CAREY.

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